weekday

See also: week-day

English

Alternative forms

• week-day (archaic)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English weke-day, from Old English wicdæġ. By surface analysis, compound of week +‎ day. Compare West Frisian wikedei (“weekday”), Dutch weekdag (“weekday”), German Wochentag (“weekday”), Danish ugedag (“weekday”), Swedish veckodag (“weekday”), Norwegian ukedag (“weekday”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwiːkdeɪ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -iːkdeɪ

Noun

weekday (plural weekdays)

1. Any individual day of the week, except those which form the weekend or the single weekly day off; that is:
   1. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, but not Saturday or Sunday.
      • 2019 October, Tony Miles, Philip Sherratt, “EMR kicks off new era”, in Modern Railways, page 58:

        The Nottingham to Skegness route and Robin Hood line from Nottingham to Mansfield and Worksop will continue with their current weekday patterns; linked to the latter is EMR's commitment to carry out a feasibility study into operating Robin Hood trains to Ollerton.

   2. (Islam) Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, but not Friday.
   3. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, or Saturday, but not Sunday. (e.g. in Vietnam)
   4. (Judaism) Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, but not Saturday.
2. (now rare) Any day of the week (Monday through Sunday).

Synonyms

• workday
• working day
• (day on which work is done in legal and official usage): business day

Related terms

• week
• weeknight

Translations

day of the week, excluding weekends

• Arabic: أيام العمل (ayam al amal)
• Armenian: աշխատանքային օր (ašxatankʻayin ōr)
• Basque: astegun (eu)
• Breton: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: де́лничен ден m (délničen den)
• Catalan: dia feiner, dia laborable
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 平日 (zh) (píngrì), 平常日 (zh) (píngchángrì)

• Danish: hverdag (da) c, arbejdsdag (da) c (work day), almindelig ugedag c (uncommon)
• Dutch: werkdag (nl) m, weekdag (nl) m
• Erzya: такойчи (takojči)
• Esperanto: labortago, semajntago
• Finnish: arkipäivä (fi)
• French: jour de la semaine (fr) m, jour ouvré (fr) m
• Galician: día solto m
• German: Wochentag (de) m, Werktag (de) m
• Greek: καθημερινή (el) f (kathimeriní)
• Hawaiian: lā noa
• Hebrew: יוֹם חֹל \ יום חול (he) m (yom ḥol)
• Hindi : वार (hi) (vār)
• Hungarian: hétköznap (hu), munkanap (hu)
• Icelandic: vikudagur (is) m
• Indonesian: hari biasa
• Ingrian: arkipäivä
• Irish: lá den tseachtain m
• Italian: giorno feriale (it) m
• Japanese: 平日 (ja) (へいじつ, heijitsu, ひら​び, hirabi), ウィークデー (ja) (wīkudē), 週日 (ja) (しゅうじつ, shūjitsu)
• Kashmiri: وار (vār)
• Korean: 평일(平日) (ko) (pyeong'il), 주중(週中) (jujung)
• Latin: feria
• Luxembourgish: Wochendag (lb) m
• Macedonian: делник m (delnik)
• Manx: please add this translation if you can
• Northern Sami: árga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hverdag (no) m, virkedag m

  Nynorsk: kvardag m, vyrkedag m, yrkedag m

• Ojibwe: anokii-giizhigad
• Old English: wicdæġ m
• Persian: روزِ کاری (rūz-e kāri)
• Plautdietsch: Woakjeldach m
• Polish: dzień roboczy (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: dia de semana m
• Romanian: zi a săptămânii f, zi lucrătoare f
• Russian: рабо́чий день m (rabóčij denʹ), бу́дний день m (búdnij denʹ), бу́дни (ru) m pl (búdni)
• Scottish Gaelic: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: día de entre semana m
• Swedish: vardag (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: hafta içi (tr), hafta arası (tr)
• Ukrainian: бу́день (uk) m (búdenʹ)
• Vietnamese: ngày thường (vi)
• Welsh: dydd o'r wythnos m

References

• American Heritage Dictionary
• “weekday”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “weekday”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.